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The Best (Im)Possible Mariners This Year Has to Offer
All over the continent, the Mariners are excelling.
Franklin Gutierrez makes Mariners' history
Guti's game winning home run was also one for the record books.
The Mariners and their reliance on home runs
If only people were on base when baseballs are hit out of the park.
Mike Zunino and his love of strikeouts
The Mariners' catcher is having a rough season at the plate so far.
A team record can be tied tonight
The Mariners could tie their team record of three-consecutive extra-inning wins tonight....if it happens.
SABR101x Course Evaluation
This year, edX and Boston University collaborated to offer the first ever massive open online course on Sabermetrics. Logan took it. In the true spirit of college, he now presents his end-of-semester course eval for SABR101x.
Opening day statistical dos and don'ts
It's opening day! Here are some suggestions for rationally interpreting early statistics.
Introducing Reformatted Batted Ball Data
Ever wished you could get batted ball data in a format better suited for en-masse analysis than Jeff Zimmerman's leaderboards or Fangraphs' spray charts? Well...
DIY Sabermetrics: Spring Training Stats
Let's walk through a very simple analysis article to expose the underlying thought process.
The Mariners and the opposite field
Last week, we took a look at the opposite-field exploits of Mariners outfielder Dustin Ackley. This week, let's expand the scope of our analysis to the whole team... and beyond.
Baseball oddities: September 25
Possibly the season's most bizarre ejection.
The Sacrifice Bunt, Part 3: Diminishing Returns
Teams are essentially sacrificing as much as they used to. But are they getting the same value out of them?
The Sacrifice Bunt, Part 2: Same As It Ever Was
The miniseries continues by examining how the sacrifice bunt has been used over the last forty years, and whether anyone has actually learned anything.
The Evolution of the Sacrifice Bunt
Today marks the first entry in a week-long series examining the use, and value, of the sacrifice bunt over the last forty years. Today: the introduction.
Baseball Oddities: May 8
In which previous dilly-dallying turns into a blog post.
Always Tinkering Baseball Changes Rules Yet Again
Boy, when will baseball just leave stuff alone and try and build some traditions? Is nothing sacred?
UPDATED: Strong and Weak Hitters
Can expected home runs, compared against actual home runs, be used to see how strong hitters are? It appears so!
Evaluating Pitchers and Home Runs
Home runs are important, but probably not good to evaluate with.
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Investigations Into Where the Strike Zone Is
Where the strike is — and is not — called
ALERT: Mariners Have Used Catchers Bad at Catching
A look at catchers' (and others) pitch-framing performance through an updated representation of the strike zone.
The Direction of Home Runs
Home runs aren't equally distributed. Of course they aren't. Nobody thought that.
An Illustrated Trip to the Edge of the Strike Zone
Where the strike is — and is not — called